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Definition of Anglo-Celtic in US English:

Anglo-Celtic

adjective

‘Australians of Asian ancestry - and indeed any ancestry other than Anglo-Celtic - will find an equality of sorts in their utter absence from Greer's narrative. They simply don't exist.’

‘Whatever the current political climate may make of the pioneers who attempted to ‘open up’ the interior, that economic experiment was not solely a product of Anglo-Celtic ingenuity, effort or political hegemony.’

‘Occasionally, and very discreetly, the results are perused to discover whether certain ethnic students do better than those of Anglo-Celtic provenance.’

‘The constant depiction of Anglo-Celtic Australia and its history as flawed, regrettable and valueless creates a siege mentality that closes minds and shuts down any rational discussion of what it is to be Australian.’